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Teen Rakes In $35k in 4 Days Plowing Snow, Plans Massive Christian Donation
westernjournal.com - Jack Davis
An Idaho teenager who was in the Seattle area this month turned the massive snow dumped on a region unprepared for the white stuff into a chance to …
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William D. Nordhaus delivered his Prize Lecture on 8 December 2018 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was introduced by Professor Per …
The charity algorithm: how Silicon Valley philanthropy turned sour
newstatesman.com - By Bryan Appleyard
Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen made giving fashionable – but not all their fellow tech entrepreneurs share the same high moral …
What’s the most generous country on earth?
Fast Company - By Ben Paynter
Gallup’s Civic Engagement Index tracks how many people around the world donate, volunteer, and help strangers Americans may have given a domestic record-breaking $410 billion to charity in 2017, but total
GoFundMe refunds donors in alleged scam involving homeless vet, NJ couple
Fox News - Katherine Lam
GoFundMe refunded more than $400,000 to 14,000 donors who believed they were helping a homeless veteran from Philadelphia — but later discovered it was an alleged scam concocted by a New Jersey couple.
Tom Hanks surprises customers at In-N-Out restaurant in California with free meals
Fox News
Tom Hanks has played many roles during his storied acting career, but patrons at a California fast-food restaurant got a surprise curtain call. Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, visited an In-N-Out Burger
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Drones Deliver Vaccines On Island Nation Of Vanuatu
NPR - Amy Held
This week, 1-month-old Joy was vaccinated against hepatitis and tuberculosis. Those are standard childhood vaccinations, but there was something definitely non-standard about the way they reached Joy.
GoFundMe campaign for border wall aims for a billion (at least)
POLITICO - By BRENT D. GRIFFITHS
President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to shut down the government over funding for his border wall. But as the question of money for his campaign proposal once again roils Congress, one man
Gary Sinise Foundation sends hundreds of Gold Star families to Disney World
Fox News - Kathleen Joyce
The Gary Sinise Foundation, founded by the "Forrest Gump" star, sent more than 600 Gold Star families to Disney World this month. Sinise made the announcement on Twitter with a picture of parents and on
GoFundMe surpasses goal for disabled 8-year-old whose hunting gear was stolen
Fox News - Janine Puhak
In something of a Christmas miracle, a disabled 8-year-old boy from Arkansas will have his custom-made hunting gear replaced after it was stolen, thanks to generous GoFundMe donors who raised over $4,800
Podcast: Habitat for Humanity CEO on the Far-Reaching Impact of Better Housing
philanthropy.com - The Chronicle of Philanthropy Staff
This week’s Business of Giving features Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International. Habitat has helped millions of low-income …
How Tech Billionaires Hack Their Taxes With a Philanthropic Loophole
The New York Times - By DAVID GELLES
Late in 2014, Nicholas Woodman, the founder and chief executive of GoPro, announced what appeared to be an extraordinary act of generosity. Mr. Woodman, then 39, had just taken his camera company public,
Mystery good Samaritan buys $1M of toys from Toys R Us to donate to kids
Fox News - Kathleen Joyce
An anonymous person spent $1 million on the last remaining toys at a North Carolina Toys R Us on Friday to donate to children. Toys R Us shuttered its last U.S. stores Friday, the end of a chain known
10 Steps to Painless Estate Planning
TIME
We get it: Nobody wants to contemplate his or her own mortality. And you may even feel that, in the context of death, questions about who gets which of your assets seem trivial. That might explain why
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Couple's fundraiser to reunite migrant families tops $20 million
NBC News - Steve Patterson
Having broken Facebook's record, the organizers set a new goal — $25 million. MENLO PARK, California — A viral fundraiser established to help one migrant family separated at the border continues to shatter
Family inherits world-record classic car collection
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Harvard Really Didn't Want People To Know How It Treats Top Donors In Admissions
BuzzFeed - Molly Hensley-Clancy
Harvard requested that information about how the university treats relatives of top donors in its admissions process be retracted from legal filings, blacking out the details of a secretive “Dean’s Interest
96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2 Million
The New York Times - By COREY KILGANNON
Even by the dizzying standards of New York City philanthropy, a recent $6.24 million donation to the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side was a whopper — the largest single gift from an individual
Billion-Dollar Blessings
propublica.org - ProPublica
How Jerry Falwell Jr. transformed Liberty University, one of the religious right's most powerful institutions, into a wildly lucrative online …
Fundraising Storm Warnings Downgraded for Now
nonprofitquarterly.org - By Ruth McCambridge | April 17, 2018
Yesterday, the Nonprofit Research Collaborative announced that 75 percent of around 1,200 charitable nonprofits surveyed in the United States and …
GUEST ARTICLE: Looking for bold new partners to join the fight against malnutrition
foodnavigator-usa.com - Kamel Chida, Deputy Director, Private Sector Partnership Development for Nutrition, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
When you look at how most families around the world get their daily food, it is clear that private sector companies have a critical role to play in …
The Newman’s Own Philanthropic Exception Is Now Law—What Will the Consequences Be?
nonprofitquarterly.org - By Rob Meiksins | March 30, 2018
101 Shares “Newman’s Own Salsa, Hot, 9/2014” by Mike Mozart March 27, 2018; WealthManagement.com February was a good month for the Newman’s Own …
The Name Game: Soundalike Charities Can Cause Headaches
nonprofitquarterly.org - By Ruth McCambridge | March 26, 2018
21 Shares By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, Link March 22, 2018; Consumer Reports Last week, four people were indicted for raising money—allegedly for …
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IRS Scandal: How Barack Obama and Lois Lerner used the IRS to illegally target and harass Tea Party and other conservative
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Shared via Kindle. Description: In May 2013, the Washington Post reported that the IRS had illegally targeted conservative groups for additional …
Leave♥The♥Word® ▶ ‘I M A G I N E’
altacities.blogspot.com - March 12, 2018
The ubiquitous Mueller investigation into so-called and alleged Russian “collusion” in the 2016 US Presidential Campaign has some chilling effects …
National Council of Nonprofits Launches Coalition Campaign to Oppose Repeal of Johnson Amendment
nonprofitquarterly.org - By Ruth McCambridge | March 2, 2017
Share246 Tweet7 Email Share81 334 Shares “Sign Here” by Lars Plougmann Yesterday, the National Council of Nonprofits launched a campaign to get nonprofits …